Announcing X4: Split Vendetta and update 3.0

[atsmith66]

Very excited for this update!

One question, and it's very important to me: will this expansion include a fix for the problem where a scale plate pact pirate demands that you drop your loot, you ignore them, they attack you (a criminal act of piracy), and then when you defend yourself (self defence and not a criminal act by any measure) you get a criminal record and lose an enormous amount of faction reputation from the Teladi?

I ask this purely because I really want to play this game a lot including this exciting expansion to it's conclusion. Many times over. X4 is THE X game I have been waiting for since X2. I can easily see myself racking up 400+ hours in this game just building stations, mining asteroids, hunting pirates, and creating trading empires. What you guys have built is amazing! But this one single issue just stops me dead in my tracks every time.

Here's me hoping and praying that this expansion brings me that dream of the in-cockpit X universe experience that is sooo very close to being. The game you guys have built is incredible! Please, give me the one thing I need in order to dedicate the hundreds of hours of incredible fun I know this game deserves to command from many many thousands of players.

You guys rock! You can do it. You know it, I know it. Just believe in yourselves! Long love Egosoft and the greatest space sim ever!

[Tamina]

[kmardis]

*looks at Steam Page*

This game is not yet available on Steam
Planned Release Date: 2019

when?

when?

WHEN?

[Sao t'Lp]

Split likes new ships! Split will use ships to fight for family!

[RaifalM3n]

omg nice !!!!!!! go EGOSOFT!!

[alt3rn1ty]

nice. Pretty sure I know what a redesign Dragon and Mamba now looks like in that trailer .. But if the names are wrong the Split style has been recreated very nicely. I will be getting all DLCs for X4, but right now .. really want v3 to come along with some long awaited bug fixes

[Lwerewolf]

Dem new ships O_O

<3

[Len5]

Yeah, nice. Still it feels a little like they sold me a house without a kitchen and bathroom for full price and now they're trying to sell me a kitchen and a while later they'll be offering a bathroom.
And if none of these DLC's will have our solar system in it... I'll still be left with a hole to fill.

[sh1pman]

Yeah, nice. Still it feels a little like they sold me a house without a kitchen and bathroom for full price and now they're trying to sell me a kitchen and a while later they'll be offering a bathroom.
And if none of these DLC's will have our solar system in it... I'll still be left with a hole to fill.

Bad comparison. They’re selling you new CONTENT, not new game mechanics. Races, factions, ships, missions - we have all of that already, the DLC just adds more. It’s like they sold you a house with three bedrooms, and now you can pay to have a fourth one.

[Len5]

Bad comparison. They’re selling you new CONTENT, not new game mechanics. Races, factions, ships, missions - we have all of that already, the DLC just adds more. It’s like they sold you a house with three bedrooms, and now you can pay to have a fourth one.

No, that's a bad comparison. To me X4F lacked content. They're now selling something that should already have been in the game.

[Falcrack]

Just want to be clear.. The 3.0 update is of course free but is the DLC paid? and if so will it be around the same $9.99 USD price point as X:R's where?

Seeing as how the collector's edition is $30 more than the base game, and includes the first 2 DLC, I would imagine that each of the DLCs would not be less than $15 each.

[spankahontis]

Bad comparison. They’re selling you new CONTENT, not new game mechanics. Races, factions, ships, missions - we have all of that already, the DLC just adds more. It’s like they sold you a house with three bedrooms, and now you can pay to have a fourth one.

No, that's a bad comparison. To me X4F lacked content. They're now selling something that should already have been in the game.

It's a new Game Engine, with features that people have wanted since X:2/X:3.. They're starting everything from scratch, they can't transfer game assets over as X:3 never had 3d People, station walking/objects etc. They have done well so far given time constraints, customer demands and Rebirth's terrible release.

You simply can't have everything right away.
Your analogy doesn't work, as someone who has moved twice in the space of 2 years.. You get a room, you don't get to call it a Bedroom until you put a Bed in it, you don't call a Kitchen a Kitchen until you buy a Cooker, Fridge etc. You don't get given these appliances (Some cases you do, but I didn't) You have to pay for these things.
Egosoft gives away free stuff, it's always kept with this tradition, but they need to keep the lights on; we're getting allot of content with the Split dlc, X3 simply doesn't have all the features of X:4 like 3d models of Split NPC's, station walking, ship interiors, Station interiors.. This is a much more ambitious project than simply adding new Sectors, new ships etc. Putting it on par with X:3 is simply wrong and dishonest, the scale is far greater.
Even X3 had to go through X:1, X:2, X:3 Reunion adding in new ships, Stations, Races in order to get to Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude standards.

Patience is a virtue.

[Arcast]

The new content looks amazing. However, I hope that you plan on fixing the fleet mechanics with the 3.0 update since they still don't work properly.
Working fleet mechanics would make the game truly complete.

Keep up the good work.

[Max Bain]

Hi Egosoft,

I really like the Split design. Finally some more ships I would like to fly.
But here comes a big question:
will the other factions get new ships as well (maybe in the free patch)? They all lack ships of M, L and XL. I know that you can not design a lot of ships in a short time because of your small team, but at least one ship (I dont care which size) for each faction would be nice.

Also, you write new weapons, but in the trailer they are not visible, right?

[Nikola515]

I haven't played game since X4 was out so I'm not sure what is status of game now but I'm hoping it is much better now... Anyway from what I have heard 3.0 will be getting more combat missions so does anyone have more info about it ?

Edit:
I hope they are more like X3 or XR missions.... I miss defend station and destroying randomly spawn pirate capital ships

[eko13wf]

Looking forward to the new ships. Hoping for a new corvette class to play around with. Dragon would be fun, as would the Acinonyx - yeah it was a prototype in X3 but maybe now it is fully ready.

[Novia Star]

YAY thank you for the news. I'm super excited. Good luck with Development. and, Take the time please to make it awesome. I'm sure us fellow Ego Sofhists would rather a polished product vs a bunch of Bethesda glitchy garbage.

[Sirilius]

Lovely.

I always enjoyed role playing as a new Split Family using split ships only. Allows me to be as aggressive as I want in x3 and to even attack the splits in a form of civil war.

Can’t wait.

[LucianDragos]

Just want to be clear.. The 3.0 update is of course free but is the DLC paid? and if so will it be around the same $9.99 USD price point as X:R's where?

Seeing as how the collector's edition is $30 more than the base game, and includes the first 2 DLC, I would imagine that each of the DLCs would not be less than $15 each.

The collectors pack came with 2 DLCs "Plus" all the bonus content so if you think about it..
$10 - Original score soundtrack + misc content (good deal if you every seen the price of a movie's original score lately)
$10 - each for the 2 DLCs

[ADMNtek]

i do like the new ships finally something that doesn't look like crap. also i noticed in the trailer at 1:28 that one of the ships had like a huge ass turret on its top .